(Authorized to release) Xi Jinping: Speech at the 2023 Spring Festival Gathering
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 20th
Speech at the 2023 Spring Festival Gathering
(January 20, 2023)
Xi Jinping
Comrades and friends:
The Lunar New Year of the Year of the Rabbit is coming.
Today, we gather here to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and to celebrate the Spring Festival.
First of all, on behalf of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, I would like to extend my best wishes for the festival to everyone!
Happy New Year to people of all ethnic groups in the country, to compatriots in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, Taiwan compatriots and overseas Chinese!
I wish you all a happy Chinese New Year!
The Renyin Year of the Tiger, which is about to pass, is an extremely important year in the history of the development of the party and the country.
Facing the turbulent international environment and the arduous and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development and stability, the entire Party, the entire army, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country faced up to the difficulties and struggled in unity. Tenacity has written a new chapter in socialist modernization.
We successfully convened the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and established a grand blueprint for building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.
The whole party, the whole army, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country embark on a new journey with high spirits, aiming for a new goal, and set off again!
Over the past year, we have fully implemented the new development concept, adhered to the general tone of the work of seeking progress while maintaining stability, fully implemented the requirements of epidemic prevention, economic stability, and development safety, accelerated the establishment of a new development pattern, and focused on promoting high-quality development. Growth was maintained, grain harvests were bumper, employment prices were basically stable, people's livelihood was solidly guaranteed, achievements in poverty alleviation continued to be consolidated, scientific and technological achievements were frequently reported, the ecological environment continued to improve, national defense and military modernization took solid steps, and comprehensive and strict party governance was advanced. The overall social situation remains stable.
We insist on the supremacy of the people and life, and constantly optimize the epidemic prevention and control measures according to the changes of the virus and the epidemic prevention situation, so as to protect people's life safety and health to the greatest extent, and minimize the impact on economic and social life.
Now, epidemic prevention is still struggling, and the dawn is ahead. As long as we work together and persevere, we will surely win the final victory in epidemic prevention.
We have successfully hosted the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics, presented a simple, safe, and exciting Olympic event to the world, and achieved a double harvest of competition and competition results. Beijing has become the world's first "Double Olympic City" .
We solemnly celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, and Hong Kong and Macau continue to maintain prosperity and stability.
We resolutely carry out major struggles against separatism and interference, and firmly grasp the initiative in cross-strait relations.
We vigorously promote major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, make more friends, and add stability to the turbulent international environment.
The hard-won achievements this year were made by the party and the people through hard work, hard work, and struggle.
Practice has shown that as long as the party and the people always stand together, want to be together, and work together, no storm can shake our iron will, and no difficulty can stop our sonorous steps.
Comrades and friends!
2023 is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and hopes and challenges coexist.
We must adhere to the word stability and seek progress while maintaining stability, better coordinate domestic and international situations, better coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, better coordinate development and security, comprehensively deepen reform and opening up, and strive to achieve an overall improvement in economic operation , to promote the continuous improvement of people's lives.
As long as we strengthen our confidence and work hard, we will surely be able to achieve a good start to the new journey.
From the avenue to simplicity, hard work is the key.
The new journey is an expedition full of glory and dreams, there is no shortcut, only hard work.
We must be down-to-earth, work hard, do not pursue fantasy, and do not focus on false claims; we must be earnest and studious, respect reality, do not violate the rules, and do not act blindly; we must be pragmatic, pay attention to actual results, and do not make superficial articles or play tricks.
Those who do often succeed, those who do do so often come, and history will not disappoint those who do it.
We have created a glorious past by hard work, and we will create a better future by hard work.
Comrades and friends!
In traditional Chinese culture, rabbits are called Ruitu and Yutu, which represent wit, quickness, purity, kindness, peace and beauty.
The auspicious rabbit is auspicious, which symbolizes that the land of China is becoming more and more peaceful, full of business and vigorous.
In the Year of the Rabbit in the lunar calendar, I hope that the people of the whole country, especially the young people, will leap forward and run fast like rabbits, and compete in all walks of life to show their style.
At the time of the reunion of thousands of families, there are still many people who stick to their jobs and leave their shining footprints on the great journey of building the Chinese dream together.
We salute these selfless givers!
Finally, I wish everyone a family reunion, good health, auspicious Year of the Rabbit and all the best!
thank you all!